Thailand’s KBank turns to Veeam to save IT costs
Thailand’s Kasikornbank (KBank) has replaced its legacy backup system with Veeam
Availability Suite to support its goal of becoming a digital-first bank. The move will help the bank save 900 administrative hours each month and
US$70,000 ($95,311.65) in IT costs annually, as well as comply with data privacy regulations from the Bank of Thailand.
“One critical requirement for digital transformation is modern data protection, but the bank’s legacy backup solution wasn’t capable of delivering that. Backup required us to manually verify the success or failure of every backup and re-run the failed ones,” says Surapan Chaimahapruek, assistant managing director of Kasikorn Business Technology Group, which is KBank’s technology subsidiary.
He adds: “Recovery was another issue. It was difficult and slow. In certain cases, we could spend more than four hours recovering a single database, which didn’t meet business requirements or support regulatory requirements.”
To address those issues, Veeam backs up 2 petabytes (PB) across 1,800 virtual machines (VM) and 120 physical machines to Hewlett Packard Enterprise StoreOnce in a secure on-site cloud. StoreOnce replicates data to a separate site for regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Since Veeam integrates with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, backup is fast and reliable, and recovery takes minutes instead of hours.
KBank is also leveraging Instant VM Recovery and Veeam Explorer for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server to reduce recovery time by 300%.
Besides that, the bank is using Veeam DataLabs, which allows administrators to create isolated environments to verify the recoverability of backups for regulatory compliance. Verifying recoverability for compliance now takes only one week, as compared to months previously.